Fix or Remove Spell Batching. Period

[Kramdinh-anathema]

lmao this is funny.

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

Yeah, funny cause it’s true.

[Affix-herod]

Someone linked me a clip from one of Joana’s early leveling videos from vanilla. This answers a question elsewhere I had about vender/ui lag so I guess at least this one part of the sluggish world is correct. you can see how delayed the selling and purchasing of arrows is here. sigh

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

How about this one:

47 AoE Frost Mage,Tanaris Grinding

Look how long it takes before they’re snared by Blizzard.

Spell Batching is awful and a few people tried to tell everyone this when they were pressing Blizzard to implement it in this thread here:

PvP needs spell batching or the meta is tarnished

If you don’t know what spell batching is, it’s the way the game processed spells before WoD. Spells were processed every server tick instead of ASAP and it’s what let two Mages polymorph each other, two Rogues gouge each other, two Priests fear each other, and so on. While it’s true that it was originally design because of technical limitations, it was kept all the way until WoD because of the positive effect it had on game play, most notably PvP. In PvP it gave you options that are not availa…

Here’s people praising Blizzard for deciding to bring us back to the stone ages:

Spell Batching in Classic

Since we first announced World of Warcraft Classic, we’ve seen questions about spell batching. While we never really eliminated spell batching in WoW, we did change how (and how often) we process batches of actions coming from players, so you’re less likely to notice that processing in today’s game. We’ve been working to ensure that in WoW Classic, the gameplay of activating spells and effects will not differ from the experience of playing original WoW. It was relatively common in the original…

You’ll probably recognize a few familiar faces of people who are now vehemently against Spell Batching. Instead of admitting they were wrong, they’ve decided to claim that Blizzard failed at properly introducing Spell Batching despite mountains of video evidence that shows how terrible it used to be and how accurate it is to what we have now.

[Celldweller-heartseeker]

Getting hit by mobs that were cheap shotted or gouged wasn’t a thing